"The" Social Credit System
Formal Metadata
| Title |
"The" Social Credit System
|
| Subtitle |
Why It's Both Better and Worse Than We can Imagine
|
| Title of Series | |
| Author |
|
| License |
CC Attribution 4.0 International:
You are free to use, adapt and copy, distribute and transmit the work or content in adapted or unchanged form for any legal purpose as long as the work is attributed to the author in the manner specified by the author or licensor. |
| Identifiers |
|
| Publisher |
|
| Release Date |
2018
|
| Language |
English
|
Content Metadata
| Subject Area | |
| Abstract |
The Chinese Social Credit System (SCS) has been discussed a lot in Western media. However, we do not know currently how the system that is supposed to take nationwide effect by 2020 will look like, as there are more than 70 pilot projects currently undertaken. These pilots rank from commercial royalty and rewards programs (Sesame Credit) to an Orwellian system, where each action has a predetermined associated score (Rongcheng). In-between, there’s nebulous algorithmic systems that basically act as a Black Box (Honesty Shanghai). This talk, therefore, looks at some of these pilots and their implementation details, and through an agent-based modeling framework, discusses the likely effects of different implementations. In doing so, it shows that most of the systems currently being tested are prone to manipulation by leaders from all levels of government, and that the ostensible goal of allocating scarce resources more efficiently is unlikely to be served by the new system(s).
|
| Keywords | Ethics, Society, Politics |
Related Material
Video is cited by the following resource
00:00
System programming
00:48
Mathematics
Machine learning
Observational study
System programming
Complex (psychology)
02:40
Hypermedia
System programming
Semiconductor memory
Control flow
05:38
System programming
06:35
System programming
Implementation
10:05
Maxima and minima
output
12:24
Wechselseitige Information
Addition
Algorithm
Distribution (mathematics)
State of matter
Menu (computing)
Range (statistics)
Similarity (geometry)
Resource allocation
System programming
Drum memory
Information security
Electric current
14:31
Resource allocation
System programming
Computer network
Information
Group action
Formal grammar
Substitute good
17:13
System programming
Different (Kate Ryan album)
output
Numbering scheme
19:59
Mechanism design
Context awareness
Rule of inference
System programming
Thermal expansion
Library catalog
Numbering scheme
Element (mathematics)
Form (programming)
Electric current
21:14
Context awareness
Rule of inference
Service (economics)
Point (geometry)
Thermal expansion
Library catalog
Plastikkarte
Numbering scheme
Element (mathematics)
Planning
Data management
Mechanism design
Design by contract
System programming
Utility software
Information
Form (programming)
Electric current
22:58
System programming
Library catalog
Numbering scheme
Local ring
24:12
Semiconductor memory
26:22
Mechanism design
Pointer (computer programming)
Algorithm
System programming
Numbering scheme
29:16
Rule of inference
Machine learning
Axiom of choice
Algorithm
Model theory
Characteristic polynomial
Point (geometry)
Average
Single-precision floating-point format
Latent heat
System programming
Pairwise comparison
Local ring
Electric current
32:46
Rule of inference
Revision control
System programming
Integrated development environment
Negative number
Greatest element
36:13
System programming
Group action
Sound effect
38:53
Machine vision
Duality (mathematics)
Algorithm
Personal digital assistant
System programming
Group action
Task (computing)
Data structure
41:17
System programming
Information
Information security
Information privacy
Leak
44:08
System programming
Acoustic shadow
Information
Asymmetry
Default (computer science)
45:02
Frequency
Distribution (mathematics)
Decision theory
Model theory
Point (geometry)
System programming
46:20
Model theory
System programming
Ranking
Implementation
50:33
System programming
53:09
System programming
59:57
Cartesian closed category
Semiconductor memory
Inflection point
